UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA
Department of Development Studies
Master of Development Studies
Written Test for Qualifying Examination
TEST BOOK
Candidate’s Name______
Examination Roll Number______
Application Form Serial Number ______
Applicant’s Signature______
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Signature of the Invigilator
INSTRUCTIONS FOR EXAMINEES
- The duration of the test is 2 hours. The test consists of two parts: Part – I: Quantitative Aptitude Part in MCQ Format for 30 minutes and Part – II: Writing Skill and Analytical Ability Part in Written Form for 1 hour and 30 minutes.
- Write both Application Form Serial Number and Examination Roll Number by using a ballpoint pen. Appropriate digits corresponding to the application serial number and examination roll number must be filled in by using ballpoint pen only. Also write your name and put your signature in the appropriate places.
- Answer MCQ questions in the OMR answer sheet by completely darkening the circle using 2B pencil/ballpoint pen.
- Do all your rough works in the margin of the test book. No rough work is allowed in the OMR answer sheet.
- Use of calculator and mobile phone in the examination hall is strictly prohibited.
- 0.25 marks will be deducted for each incorrect or multiple answer. All unanswered questions will earn ‘0’ mark.
- Candidates are required to score a minimum acceptable mark in each section.
- Adopting any sort of unfair means will result into cancellation of candidature.
- Candidates must return the OMR sheet at 10:30 A.M. They may start writing the answers of Part-II if they complete Part-I before the stipulated time. Answering Part-II of the test book must be completed by 12:00 P.M.
Sample Questionnaire
1. If the length and width of a rectangular garden plot were each increased by 20 percent, what would be the percent increase in the area of the plot?
A) 20% B) 24% C) 36% D) 40% E) 44%
2. Helen purchased brand X pens for Tk. 4.00 a piece and brand Y pens for Tk. 2.80 a piece. If Helen purchased a total of 12 of these pens for Tk. 42.00, how many brand X pens did she purchase?
A) 4 B) 5 C) 6 D) 7 E) 8
3. If the total payroll expense of a certain business in year Y was Tk. 84,000 which was 20 percent more than in year X, what was the total payroll expense in year X?
A) 70,000 B) 68,320 C) 64,000 D) 60,000 E) 52,320
4. What is the length of the line that connects point A (1, 3) to Point B (-1, 5)?
A) B) 2 C) 2 D) 4 E) 8
5. Rabeya is two years younger than Sumon. If Sumon is m years old, how old was Rabeya two years ago?
A) m +2 B) m -2 C) m -4 D) m +4 E) 2m -2
6. If 1.5x=0.04y then the value of (y-x)/(y+x) is
A) 730/77 B) 73/77 C) 7.3/77 D) 73/7.7 E) 73/770
7. A dog starts to chase a cat when it is 195 m ahead from the dog. The dog runs at a speed of 10 m per second while the cat runs at a speed of 4 m per second. After how many seconds the dog will catch the cat?
A) 34.5 B) 33 C) 32.5 D) 30 E) 28.5
8. A train starts full of passengers. At the first station, it drops one-third of the passengers and takes 280 more. At the second station, it drops one-half of the new total and takes 12 more. On arriving at the third station, it is found to have 248 passengers. Find the number of passengers at the beginning.
A) 240 B) 248 C) 280 D) 288 E) 320
9. A rectangle is 14 cm long and 10 cm wide. If the length is reduced by x cm and its width is increased also by x cm so as to make it a square then its area changes by:
A) 4 sq cm B) 144 sq cm C) 12 sq cm D) 2 sq cm E) 44 sq cm
10. Box of 150 packets consists of 1kg packets and 2kg packets. Total weight of box is 264kg. How many 2kg packets are there?
A) 96 B) 67 C) 100 D) 114 E) 118
11. When the price of oranges is lowered by 40%, 4 more oranges can be purchased for Taka 12 than can be purchased for the original price. How many oranges can be purchased for Taka 24 at the original price?
A) 8 B) 12 C) 16 D) 20 E) 24
12. When the integer a is multiplied by 3, the result is 4 less than 6 times the integer b. Therefore, a-2b is
A) -12 B) -4/3 C) -3/4 D) 4/3 E) 12
13. If x=3a and y=9b, then which of the following is equal to 2(x+y)
A) 2(3a) +9b B) 12a +9b C) 6a+18b B) 6a+21b E) 3a+9b
14. The average of seven numbers is 9. The average of three of these numbers is 5. What is the average of the other four numbers?
A) 4 B) 7 C) 10 D) 12 E) 16
15. What is the length of the longest distance between any two corners in a rectangular box with dimensions 3 inches by 4 inches by 5 inches?
A) 5 B) 12 C) 5√2 D) 12√2 E) 5√12
16. If u>t, r>q, s>t and t>r, which of the following must be true?
I. u>s II. s>q III.u>r
A) I only B) II only C) III only D) I and II E) II and III
17. The ratio of male to female students in a class is 7:5 with a total number of students of 72. What is the difference between numbers of male and female students in the class?
A) 12 B) 14 C) 16 D) 18 E) 20
18. Share price of a stock drops from Taka 250 to Taka 210. What is the percentage decline for this stock?
A) 16% B) 15% C) 24% D) 17% E) 12%
19. When my daughter was born I was 30 years old. At what age of mine, my age will be 3 times of that of my daughter?
A) 35 years B) 45 years C) 50 years D) 60 years E) 75 years
20. A trader buys 30 eggs for Taka 120. How many Eggs should he sell for Taka 100 to make a profit of 25%?
A) 26 B) 22 C) 32 D) 20 E) 16
1. Read the passage below and answer the following questions Marks - 15
Woodrow Wilson was referring to the liberal idea of the economic market when he said that the free enterprise system is the most efficient economic system. Maximum freedom means maximum productiveness; our “openness” is to be the measure of our stability. Fascination with this ideal has made Americans defy the “Old World” categories of settled possessiveness versus unsettling deprivation, the cupidity of retention versus the cupidity of seizure, a “status quo” defended or attacked. The United States, it was believed, had no status quo ante. Our only “station” was the turning of a stationary wheel, spinning faster and faster. We did not base our system on property but opportunity—which meant we based it not on stability but on mobility.
The more things changed, that is, the more rapidly the wheel turned, the steadier we would be. The conventional picture of class politics is composed of the Haves, who want a stability to keep what they have, and the Have-Nots, who want a touch of instability and change in which to scramble for the things they have not. But Americans imagined a condition in which speculators, self-makers, runners are always using the new opportunities given by our land. These economic leaders (front-runners) would thus be mainly agents of change. The nonstarters were considered the ones who wanted stability, a strong referee to give them some position in the race, a regulative hand to calm manic speculation; an authority that can call things to a halt, begin things again from compensatory staggered “starting lines.” “Reform” in America has been sterile because it can imagine no change except through the extension of this metaphor of a race, wider inclusion of competitors, “a piece of the action,” as it were, for the disenfranchised. There is no attempt to call off the race.
Since our only stability is change, America seems not to honor the quiet work that achieves social interdependence and stability. There is, in our legends, no heroism of the office clerk, no stable industrial work force of the people who actually make the system work. There is no pride in being an employee (Wilson asked for a return to the time when everyone was an employer). There has been no boasting about our social workers—they are merely signs of the system’s failure, of opportunity denied or not taken, of things to be eliminated. We have no pride in our growing interdependence, in the fact that our system can serve others, that we are able to help those in need; empty boasts from the past make us ashamed of our present achievements, make us try to forget or deny them, move away from them. There is no honor but in the Wonderland race we must all run, all trying to win, none winning in the end (for there is no end).
(Tick (√) the best possible answer)
1.1. The primary purpose of the passage is to
A) Criticize the inflexibility of American economic mythology
B) Contrast “Old World” and “New World” economic ideologies
C) Challenge the integrity of traditional political leaders
D) Champion those Americans whom the author deems to be neglected
1.2. According to the passage, “Old World” values were based on
A) Ability B) Property
C) Family connections D) Guild hierarchies
1.3. In the context of the author’s discussion of regulating change, which of the following could be most probably regarded as a “strong referee” in the United States?
A) A school principal B) A political theorist
C) A federal court judge D) A social worker
1.4. The author sets off the word “Reform” with quotation marks in order to
A) Emphasize its departure from the concept of settled possessiveness
B) Show his support for a systematic program of change
C) Underscore the flexibility and even amorphousness of United States society
D) Assert that reform in the United States has not been fundamental
1.5. Which of the following best expresses the author’s main point?
A) Americans’ pride in their jobs continues to give them stamina today.
B) The absence of a status quo ante has undermined United States economic structure.
C) The free enterprise system has been only a useless concept in the United States.
D) The myth of the American free enterprise system is seriously flawed.
2. Analyze and interpret in your own words the following table on incidence of poverty by educational status in Bangladesh Marks - 4
Table: Incidence of Poverty (Cost of Basic Needs) by Educational Status (Using Lower Poverty Line)
Characteristics of Households / 2010 / 2005National / Rural / Urban / National / Rural / Urban
National / 17.6 / 21.1 / 7.7 / 25.1 / 28.6 / 14.6
Literacy status:
Illiterate / 25.1 / 27.2 / 15.6 / 36.3 / 37.5 / 29.9
Literate / 9.2 / 12.4 / 3.3 / 12.3 / 15.3 / 6.7
Educational level:
No education / 25.1 / 27.1 / 15.6 / 36.3 / 37.4 / 30.3
Completed class I-IV / 15.8 / 18.4 / 7.9 / 19.3 / 21.8 / 12.6
Completed class V-IX / 11.4 / 13.8 / 5.4 / 15.8 / 17.5 / 11.1
Completed class SSC+ / 3.4 / 6.1 / 0.8 / 4.4 / 7.1 / 1.9
Answer:
3. Data Table/Chart Analysis Marks – 6
3.1. How many more people voted for the most popular color than for the least popular color?
A) 12 B) 13 C) 14 D) 15 E) None of these
Amount Spent on Computer Imports
3.2. If the amount spent on computer imports into the UK in Year 5 was 20% lower than in Year 4, what was spent in Year 5?
A) 1,080 million B) 1,120 million C) 1,160 million D) 1,220 million
E) 1,300 million
3.3. From a survey of 100 university students, a marketing research company found that 75 students owned stereos, 45 owned cars, and 35 owned cars and stereos.
How many students did not own either a car or a stereo?
A) 25 B) 15 C) 38 D) 85 E) None of these
4. Translate the following paragraph into chaste Bangla Marks - 10
“A market economy is an economic system controlled, regulated, and directed by markets alone; order in the production and distribution of goods is entrusted to this self-regulating mechanism. An economy of this kind derives from the expectation that human beings behave in such a way as to achieve maximum money gains. It assumes markets in which the supply of goods (including services) available at a definite price will equal the demand at that price. It assumes the presence of money, which functions as purchasing power in the hands of its owners. Production will then be controlled by prices, for the profits of those who direct production will depend upon them; the distribution of the goods also will depend upon prices, for prices form incomes, and it is with the help of these incomes that the goods produced are distributed amongst the members of the society. Under these assumptions order in the production and distribution of goods is ensured by prices alone.” (Adapted from Karl Polanyi, 2005, p-99)